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        <div class="section"><h2>Welcome to NPanday</h2>
<p>NPanday provides <a href="./plugins/">Maven 2.x plugins</a> to support building .NET applications at the command line or in your IDE. It enables you to use Visual Studio with a Maven-compatible development infrastructure.</p>
<p>NPanday is its own framework, the goal of which is to provide a common Maven build environment across .NET compilers (C#, VB), vendors (Microsoft, Novell, DotGNU), and platforms (Windows, Linux). This framework leverages Maven for the build lifecycle, making it a small compiler-plugin-framework on top of the larger Maven build-framework.</p>
<p>NPanday Maven Integration Features support console, window and web based applications as listed below.</p>
<p>C# &amp; VB Project supported project types</p>
<ul><li>Windows Application</li>
<li>Class Library</li>
<li>Console Application</li>
<li>Device Application</li>
<li>Crystal Reports Application</li>
<li>ASP .NET Web Application</li>
<li>ASP .Net Web Service Application</li>
<li>Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)</li>
<li>Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)</li>
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<p>Web Site supported project types</p>
<ul><li>ASP.Net Web Site</li>
<li>ASP .NET Web Service</li>
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<p>To be more specific, NPanday supported project types are: CSharp (library, executable), VbDotNet (library, executable), Web_Site, and Web_Application, Windows_Presentation_Foundation__WPF, Windows_Communication_Foundation__WCF.</p>
<p>And the combination of types supported are: Web_Site + CSharp, Web_Site + VbDotNet, Web_Application + CSharp, and Web_Application + VbDotNet, Windows_Presentation_Foundation__WPF + CSharp, Windows_Presentation_Foundation__WPF + VbDotNet, Windows_Communication_Foundation__WCF + CSharp, Windows_Communication_Foundation__WCF + VbDotNet.</p>
<p>NPanday supported project structures are as follows:</p>
<ul><li>Flat Single Module Project</li>
<li>Normal Single Project</li>
<li>Flat Multi Module Project</li>
<li>Normal Multi Module Project</li>
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<p>Click here for more <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/npanday" class="externalLink"> NPanday Information </a></p>
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<div class="section"><h2>Reporting Bugs/Requesting Features</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.codeplex.com/npanday/WorkItem/List.aspx" class="externalLink"> NPanday Issue Tracking</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:npanday@discussions.codeplex.com" class="externalLink"> Post to Mailing List</a></li>
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<p>This documentation is also available in a <a href="./npanday.pdf"> single pdf</a>.</p>
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